tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4948639370963233479..comments2015-03-03T15:41:14.390-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Recreation wrecks the nationZephirinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90594719869508172412013-01-23T02:22:34.581-08:002013-01-23T02:22:34.581-08:00Elmo,
The troubling aspect of the term &quot;recr...Elmo,<br /><br />The troubling aspect of the term &quot;recreation&quot; right now, for me, in this senior-citizen context (my own context I guess, though I&#39;d have to be dragged kicking &amp; screaming into it, as presently constituted), is the unconscious substitution of &quot;regiment&quot; for &quot;recreate&quot;.<br /><br />A society in which the old are rendered useless may find it convenient to shunt the body-bags off into organized drills and &quot;activities&quot;, but this feels more like an architectural elaboration of the waiting room for the beyond than any sort of true involvement in life... as one however nostalgically insists on remembering it.<br /><br />By that I mean -- unprogrammed.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46221537505950535992013-01-22T17:16:42.490-08:002013-01-22T17:16:42.490-08:00let us not give the word
RECREATION a bad name
Do...let us not give the word<br />RECREATION a bad name<br /><br />Dorn looked for ironies<br />of the disordered psyche<br />among quotidian order<br /><br />When talking to my patients<br />about depression I talk about<br />the word RECREATION<br /><br />Simply broken down, it is<br />RE CREATE<br /><br />revive, live again, make it new<br />as some older deceased poets used<br />to sayElmo St. Rosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88890403776198101162013-01-19T05:52:59.421-08:002013-01-19T05:52:59.421-08:00or they do not know what they want...or they do not know what they want...Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670821270960081899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9711776055811375732013-01-19T05:40:23.070-08:002013-01-19T05:40:23.070-08:00Yes, Sandra, I think that is, unfortunately, the c...Yes, Sandra, I think that is, unfortunately, the case.<br /><br />To my mind it bespeaks not so much the uselessness of the old, as the inhumanity of this form of society.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81936356966698748512013-01-19T05:34:42.575-08:002013-01-19T05:34:42.575-08:00the life of the old is something important that so...the life of the old is something important that society does not face well...maybe that is the fault of man himself unable to think about the &quot;end&quot;...Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670821270960081899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91092923648429248472013-01-19T05:15:12.292-08:002013-01-19T05:15:12.292-08:00Yes, it&#39;s all drill and regimen, this desperat...Yes, it&#39;s all drill and regimen, this desperate ordeal of forcing physical existence to be eked out beyond the shelf life.<br /><br />Looking at these images, what&#39;s acutely noticeable for me (being old) is the fact that in this country there is no such thing as a respected village elder who&#39;s at least left to woolgather in a corner without having to be sequestered into these miserable waiting-room-for-death bins... er, &quot;retirement communities&quot;... where &quot;recreation&quot; is a compulsory form of that legendary sort of Work Which Makes Free.TChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40604129757617403412013-01-18T14:19:00.638-08:002013-01-18T14:19:00.638-08:00How measured our leisure time is. The call to orde...How measured our leisure time is. The call to order is pervasive.Wooden Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.com